The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 48, Ed. 1, Tuesday, April 18, 1972 Page: 3 of 4
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"College students are a good-
natured hard-working fun-lov
ing bunch of kids. Oh sure they .
do some crazy things like swal-
low goldfish wear those shaggy
raccoon coats scream at football
games and stuff themselves into
phone booths. But for the most
part college students are good-
natured .hard-working and fun-
loving." That may have been an ac-
curate description of the college
student for 50 years ago when
things were The Cat's Meow
rather than Right on but the
new image of the university
student as him doing somewhat
different things than in the days
of the Varsity Drag. Today the
student does other "crazy"
things. He swallows hallucino-
genic drugs' rather than goldfish
wears hippie clothes screams at
demonstrations and stuffs him-
self into an occasional univer-
sity'administrator's office.
TODAY AMERICAN college
students are in dire need of a
good public relations firm.
"It's in the eyes of those 'al-
legedly Concerned Citizens that
the student image is a tainted
one mutilated by magazine cov-
ers screaming out about the Stu-
dent Revolution (exploiting cov-
' ers that often are more revolt-
ing than the Revolts themselves)
and even more distorted by one-
sided television coverage that
shows only the student revolu-
tion but never the evolution.
The medium is the mess.
Newspapers radio and especial-
ly television have given the peo-
ple of America an even more
distorted picture of what the
Typical Today Student is like.
The emerging stereotype is
the raggedy-coifed revolution-
College
Students xblitz' beach
during Easter holiday
W(hile some students were
home for Easter others were
working and others in Indiana
16 Hardin - Simmons students-
went to Padre Island.
The purpose of this trip was
to "blitz"' the beach and wit-
ness to the people that were at
Padre for the weekend.
"Hard" is the word Pat Pat-
tillo used to describe the week-
end. "It was hard to witness to
people on the beach" he said
"not everyone was open to it."
"I learned a lot about witness-
ing" said David Holland an-
other student who made the trip.
This was a "new type of wit-
nessing" according to Debbie
Forest.
"We went to witness" Cindy
Goldmeier commented "but it
turned out to be a learning ex-
perience." The students who went met
with the BSUs of several other
colleges and universities around
' the state to "blitz" the beach
area and witness to everyone.
-The students walked around
the beach meeting other people
and talking with them. Others
went around with their guitars
singing and were able to "wit-
ness in song."
"We had some good experi-
ences talking with people" Hol-
i vland said "we had several heavy
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kids
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ary-radical endlessly partaking
in various school-spirited activ
ities bombings seizures strikes
pillage and a little arson on the
side. In his spare time he downs
dope sleeps promiscuously in
coed d6rms dresses outlandishly
and that's that. .
THE MEDIA displays (and
displays) only his demonstra-
tion behavior which might very
well be out of context. He might
be a medical student with honor
grades who loves his mother
dates a sensible girl attends
church has a good part-time job
loves apple pie and in all other
ways fulfills the All-American
dreams. But the 6 o'clock news
never shows that part of him.
People are frightened by the
student movement scared and
acrimonious. The values they've
held sacred the goals they've
strived toward suddenly are
being threatened by their own
children. The result is panic. In
a nation-wide poll taken last
spring the campus unrest prob-
lem ranked number one even
over war ecology racial strife
poverty and crime.
Spring is the season in which
they take place. Spring when
every young student's fancy
turns to revolution when a
fresh breath means a mouthful
of mace and spring fever meang
' the hot anger of the U.S. popu-
lace sitting by their TVs count-
ing the RPMs.
And they aren't exactly sitting '
there watching nothing. Last
year 1785 demonstrations took
place on college campuses in-
cluding 313 building seizures
and sit-ins 281 anti-ROTC dem-
onstrations 246 arsons and 7200
student arrests resulting in
raps" he added.
"I spent a lot of time with one
person" Pattillo commented.
"You could see the Holy Spir-
it working" Holland stated "He
drew us closer as Christians."
The experience "helped me a
bunch" Pattillo said "it helped
me to realize people's needs."
"It made me rely that much
more on God" Miss Geldmeier
commented.
But the weekend at Padre Is-
land was not the only place these
students had good experiences.
For Miss McDonald the "trip
back home" had several good
points to it.
The bus she was riding on had
several breakdowns that provid-
ed "opportunities to witness to
people" on the way home.
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more than $9.5 million in dam-
age. TELEVISION BROUGHT all
the damage fire seizures sit-ins
right into our living rooms in
living red white black apd blue
color. The Student Radical could
have 'been the title of a highly
successful action-packed situ-
ation TV show aired in lieu of
the news every evening.
The new student portrait is
detrimental to the student him-
self making all students ap-
pear alike depersonalizing them
castrating individuality and
sprouting new prejudices in a
world already too full of biases.
Yet the new student image can
not be as bad as college trustees
and university regents might
fear.
A sit-in might be a radical
way of expressing an idea but
it certainly is more socially pro-
vocative and meaningfully pro-
found than swallowing a gold-
fish. Discontented students sit in
and take over because they are
concerned with values that af-
fect the total society not just
themselves.
It's the cause which is so im-
portant. But television shows
only the superficial outcome of
the student fight for that cause
the rioting the sea of straggly
students the hurled rocks the
four-letter words. The bloody
fighting hell-raising revolution-
ary student image could be if
not changed at least altered
if the media could make the
public aware of the issues be-
hind the fight.
STRUGGLES FOR ECOL-
OGY an end of racism equal
rights community control and
the finish of an unjust war are
not difficult issues for the public
to relate to. However they get
lost in the color and dramatics
of the televised college demon-
strations which always come
out looking like a television
Fellini orgy rather than a con-
cerned and optimistic fight for
a better American future.
Rick Mitz
Reprinted from the
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